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"The student and I met to prepare for his final exam. He has done quite a bit of work on his own and has a good deal of familiarity with the relevant concepts. We discussed these issues as we worked on some past AP problems. It was a great session!"

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"Today we covered trig identities. We started with finding exact values using the trig identities. The student tended to forget some parts of this chapter, but I managed to bring his memory back (cofunction identities, reciprocal identities, Pythagorean identities, etc.)."

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"Calculus - we worked on chain rule applications. Some of the questions we focused on asked to simply take the chain rule, which the student was very strong at and simply needed to practice a few times. Other questions asked to find the value of the derivative given certain values, and in that respect, we simply worked through the process and set him up to solve it. Once we established how to derive that formula, the student seemed more comfortable applying the method to other problems."

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"In this session, we discussed the book the student is currently reading, the final installment of the Maze Runner series. We discussed major themes and he did some simple character analysis for me. I felt he had a strong understanding of the story and characters. We then went through a rather difficult reading comprehension worksheet about a speech given by John F. Kennedy, in which he had to analyze the meanings of metaphorical passages like "passing the torch" and "whoever tries to ride the back of the tiger will end up inside." He found this rather difficult, but this was expected because it is somewhat above his reading level, and I was glad to just expose him to a small passage. I was pleased that he was receptive to it, and seemed to pick up on the ideas quickly as we discussed them together. He then did a 6 minute free-writing exercise on "imagine you're in The Maze Runner" and we finished by going over some of his homework, a 5 sentence summary of "what will the purpose be" of a research paper he is beginning to work on in class. He will be researching video games. "

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"Today we studied line integrals. Most of the student's problem is that she did not understand, geometrically, what a line integral was. Once that was explained, it was just a matter of applying the formula in creative ways. The other snag hit when we had to parametrize a curve in order to integrate it. We did two such problems and she understood the concept and was able to do further problems on her own."

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"The student had some homework to do on reviewing expressions, equations, and inequalities. This was practice for him to work on, and he seemed to do very well. As always, he caught on well to the material with my guidance. He was preparing for an upcoming test, and I know he will do very well on it. "

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"We covered multiplying and dividing decimals. The student didn't have much trouble with it after I explained to him the rules about placing decimals. We also reviewed long division, specifically what to do when bringing down multiple digits. Finally, we discussed the writing assignment I gave him, and general pointers on how to improve it (providing more context, thinking about what each sentence is supposed to be doing and tailoring the writing to make it explicit, avoiding sentence fragments). For homework, he is supposed to find some decimal multiplication/ division worksheets online and work on those, as well as write an essay expressing and arguing for his opinion on the topic I gave him."

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"Today Student A and I focused on word problems having to do with proportions. He struggled with not making small mistakes throughout the course of the problem. He did improve fairly quickly with the methods he used for each problem though. He and I need to continue to focus on not making mistakes and checking his work. Student B and I continued to work on his reading abilities and did some worksheets pertaining to homonyms and antonyms/ synonyms. He continues to improve with his reading and spelling abilities."

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"The student has to take short exams in her class. We went over the problems she missed on the tests. She can retake the exams, and I feel confident that her score will improve after relearning some of the concepts. "

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"We discussed integrating an area of circles (pi*r^2) from 2 different x values, bounding the volume into a cylinder. as well as how speed is the derivative of distance traveled function, so integrating the speed over a time interval gives the total distance traveled in that time interval. We also went over using areas of individual trapezoids combined to get total area under a line or function, and discussed how the area of a trapezoid is equal to the average height ([h1+h2]/2) times width. Each trapezoid we drew had a width of 2, and we then found the 2 different height values and averaged them to get the midpoint height value. "

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"Today the student and I went over the essay he prepared, which was much better than his previous essays. There were still words that were hard to make out due to handwriting and some spelling errors. His word choices and variation are getting much better. As always, the student has a positive attitude and works steadily. After going over the essay, we mirrored last session by working on another planning phase and writing of the essay. After each paragraph, we checked in and discussed what was working or not. Now, the student is to go through the planning phase (30 minutes) for 4 essays from the SAT book and choose 2 essays to write in full (1 hour each). "

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